palmer drought index

Summary: California’s drought might be to us what the dust bowl of the prairies was to the 1930s (irony: California was the big beneficiary of that drought). This post answers most of your questions about the drought, cutting through the media chaff of misinformation (but does not discuss its effects). This is an update of …

Summary: For decades scientists warned us that the American southwest had experienced long brutal droughts. We did nothing to prepare. Now we reap the consequences, as California experiences the worst droughts of the past century. With no end in sight, we must mobilize to mitigate the damage. Which might prove severe. This can become a …

Summary: The force of American politics comes from one simple fact: both Left and right are Americans, and share the same gullibility. The pathos of American politics comes the ability of each side to see through the lies that mesmerize their opponents — and the mockery that this gullibility makes of our attempt to rule …